Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: CountryBoyJohn on December 21, 2014, 09:38:26 AM
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Here is a new video of what it looks like burning hedge.
http://youtu.be/r6vS5U-k-hQ (http://youtu.be/r6vS5U-k-hQ)
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That is just way too cool. I need to shoot a quick video like that when I'm burning. Maybe I'll try to get one of a massive oxygen rush on a hot smoldering pile.
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Very nice Countryboy!
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Where do you get all the hedge I don't think that grows here in MN apparently it does where you live I take it?
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Where do you get all the hedge I don't think that grows here in MN apparently it does where you live I take it?
Ayuh,.... My question as well,.... Never heard of a tree called Hedge,.....
Wicked Cool fire though,....
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Hedge Trees are all over northern Missouri. Hedge post are used in fences will last for years and years very very dense wood, it burns hotter than HELL I have seen it get stoves so hot they turn white and I know about this because I had one! Have you ever heard of Osage Orange? Same thing. I like mixing it with other woods. When green the inside of the wood has a orangeee yellow look to it one of a kind very distinct look when you see it for the first time you wont for get it, also I have seen sparks when cutting this wood with a chain saw super hard wood.
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I cut a little bit of hedge last year. A lot of it is smaller rounds probably 3 inches in diameter. They burn really hot!
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Hedge generates 30 MBTU per cord. Hot stuff. Ash, as a comparison, generates around 23 MBTU per cord. When it is green, it cuts and splits well. When it dries, however, sparks will fly on your chain and dull it in no time!!
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Wish it was available in MN
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Don't take this the wrong way CBJ but for some odd reason, I was hoping to see you get a little hedge cinder burn and shout a couple obscentities.... :o ;) ;D
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Ha! Not this time! I've already singed my eye lashes off this season. I'm learning though. Last year it was eye lashes AND eyebrows!!
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Ha! Not this time! I've already singed my eye lashes off this season. I'm learning though. Last year it was eye lashes AND eyebrows!!
Ouch! I think our hottest burning wood here in MN is white oak if I'm wrong someone please chime in!
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Ha! Not this time! I've already singed my eye lashes off this season. I'm learning though. Last year it was eye lashes AND eyebrows!!
Lol I went to the barber a few weeks ago and he said "it looks like you've been close to a flame" I just laughed and said yea, it happens!
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BARBER, What for?
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That's really neat! I also have never heard of hedge that's some flame though .
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Ha! Not this time! I've already singed my eye lashes off this season. I'm learning though. Last year it was eye lashes AND eyebrows!!
Ouch! I think our hottest burning wood here in MN is white oak if I'm wrong someone please chime in!
Ayuh,..... Up here in the Northeast, Beech is the Best,...
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80-90% of my cutting time is spent on hedge for the OWB, its a.k.a Osage Orange or Bodart. Makes great homemade bows for archery purposes as well. My grandmother spread the hedge balls (fruit) around places she did not want box elder bugs (those little black bugs that have orange lines on their backs) hanging out too. They were planted in the plains as living fences early on, to keep grazers out. they were commonly planted around farmhouses and gardens to keep unwanted bovine out.
Makes great firewood for an outside furnace too!
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I gotta keep my noggin lookin good, slim! The military won't let me have a mullet....
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Been there, done that, don't miss it! Personally I like the unkept look of an old long haired / bearded Libertarian, Hippie. Thank you for your service to Our Nation!
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One of my landlords lost about fifteen hedge trees when a good storm rolled thru, I need to start cutting on those next.
Hedge around here is also called osange orange, hedge apple, or road apples. It's 2.5's harder than white oak with twice the tensile strength. Makes very good fence posts as well, cut your post and let em dry a bit before placing in the ground or it may start to sprout.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera)
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Mr. Mlappin, if that hedge has been down for very long, it may be a lost cause!! You have to cut and split it when it's green!! You will go through your bars and chains in no time. When hedge dries it gets hard as concrete.
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Been there, done that, don't miss it! Personally I like the unkept look of an old long haired / bearded Libertarian, Hippie. Thank you for your service to Our Nation!
Thank you as well! I'll be a hippie in about 14 years :bash:
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Mr. Mlappin, if that hedge has been down for very long, it may be a lost cause!! You have to cut and split it when it's green!! You will go through your bars and chains in no time. When hedge dries it gets hard as concrete.
Just happened this summer, still had leaves on em this fall.
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I have been cutting hedge from brush piles that was dozed out 5+ years ago. As long as the bark is still on it, and a sharp chain, you should not have any problems. :o